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Robotics is a new, rapidly developing area of science and technology related to the creation and application of robots and robotic systems. Robots have entered our lives in various fields. They fly into space, explore other planets; they help for military purposes. They can be found in all major spheres of human life – in construction, industry, aviation. There are household and industrial robots, security and military robots, biorobots, robot-athletes, medical and nanorobots, training robots, scientific robots and robot-researchers.

An important role in this belongs to technical education, which should become an integral, priority part of the training of specialists in the field of industrial automation, improvement of production processes that determine the technical progress of the XXI century.

During the plenary and breakout sessions it will be traditionally considered the actual issues related to the creation of a new generation of robotic systems to operate in extreme conditions and emergency situations, including the fight against terrorism, firefighting, defense tasks, as well as problems in the exploration of the space and depths of the ocean, medicine, nuclear energy and hazardous industries.

Areas of work:

Section 1. Collaborative Robotics

Current state and problems of collaborative robotics
Psychological aspects of human-robot interaction in collaborative robotics
Application of augmented reality in robot control and programming
Human interaction with an exoskeleton.
Ways of analysis of the collaborative roboticseffectiveness

Section 2.Multi-agent robotic systems

Challenges and perspectives of application of Multi-agent robotic systems
MRTS, including ground and flying robots
Methods of control of Multi-agent robotic systems in the tasks of elimination of the accidents and catastrophes consequences
Principles of industrial Multi-agent robotic systems organization
Application and management structure of agricultural Multi-agent robotic systems

Section 3. New methods of robot control and navigation

Neural networks application in the tasks of robot control
Methods of navigation and information complexing for the solution of the SLAM tasks using MPVTs
Control issues of the space based robots
Control of the robots with the variable configuration
Underwater robotics control

Important Dates

Registration and abstract submission March 15, 2020
Notification of acceptance March 25, 2020
Registration without report May 20, 2020
Conducting the conference May 25-26, 2020
Submission of the final version of the article March 10, 2020

Authors are informed of acceptance of articles for publication on a case-by-case basis after presenting in person at the Conference in accordance with the recommendations of the Program Committee.

According to the experts of Google, the following modern problems of robotics stand out:

The need to find ways to prevent negative consequences of machines’ actions (so that machines avoid breaking anything on their own in the process of activity);
The likelihood of fraud by robotic machines (concerns endowed with AI) or improper performance of their assigned tasks;

Determining the optimal degree of supervision of robots (artificial intelligence should act fairly independently and not abuse human attention);
Issues of safe operation of machines (learning to prevent actions if they are known to cause damage);
Creating the ability to function in a new environment with fundamentally different conditions (robotics AI should act based on actual data and conditions).

However, scientists are concerned not only about the current problems of robotics, but also about those that are likely to arise in the near foreseeable future. It is worth taking into account the fact that complications do not only concern directly technical aspects, but also quite generalized ones. For example, experts are extremely concerned about how robots will interact with humans. It is unlikely that Asimov’s 3 laws of robotics will work in real life, so the development of their working analogues is necessary. Moreover, the issue of interaction between machines and animals, which developers almost always overlook, is acute here as well.

Another problem that, fortunately, robotics lacks in the modern world is the question of robots’ self-awareness. Will it be a necessary condition for the creation of full-fledged artificial intelligence, or will it be deprived of this quality. This can also include most of the other complications.